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00:01 #S055 - “One Day At A TIme” (Part 2)
00:19 Welcome to the Breath Of Life 00:21 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:26 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will continue with part 00:29 two of the powerful message titled One Day at a Time. 00:34 Now let's go deeper into the word of God. 00:38 And what he's trying to teach Israel along with us is that I 00:42 must be your contingency plan. 00:47 See how many of us understand 00:48 that in the will of God, you don't need a plan B, right? 00:53 Okay. 00:56 If your steps 00:57 have been ordered by God, you don't need a backup plan. 01:02 You don't need an additional hard drive. 01:05 You don't need a para shoot if your steps have been ordered. 01:09 By God. 01:10 I need you to know that God is going to come through. 01:14 But I need you to know the reason 01:15 why God hates our backup plan. 01:18 Because when you walk by site, 01:19 your backup plan supplants God's original plan. 01:25 So there were some of us 01:26 there were about to take the step of faith 01:28 and go back to school or maybe start the business. 01:32 But the problem is, you kept that decent paying job 01:36 and you kept it as a contingency plan. 01:39 And that contingency plan supplanted God's original plan. 01:43 See, there were 01:44 some of us that are praying for God 01:46 to send a good godly husband, a good godly wife, 01:50 to help walk with you in eternity. 01:52 But the problem is, you will not let go of your jump 01:54 off your cutting partner or your friends with benefits 02:00 and say you can't even see God's original plan 02:05 because you're so emotionally entangled 02:08 with your content agency plan. 02:11 There are some of us that want to give 02:13 to the cause of Jesus Christ. 02:14 But what we do 02:15 is, man, we won't give God the first fruit of our offering. 02:19 We say, I'll return it at the end of the month. 02:22 So if God doesn't show up, then I got a little something 02:27 to keep me for bad days. 02:30 But what I'm trying to get somebody to understand 02:32 is that man, your contingency plan. 02:34 It is an act of disobedience 02:37 that puts you on the other side of the blessing of God. 02:41 See? Help me, Holy Spirit. 02:43 I need somebody to be clear that there can be 02:46 no contingencies in the realm of faith 02:51 like this. 02:53 And I need you to be clear that God is not tie savings account. 02:57 God is not a.t diamond front. 03:00 He is not into having a little extra on occasion. 03:02 But what god is saying 03:04 is that I'm going to make war with anything you create 03:09 to create a cushion for your disobedience against my word. 03:12 How many of us in the room today 03:14 want to live in miracle territory? 03:17 Do I have at least a one witness today? 03:19 Now, I need you to know that there is no contingencies 03:24 in miracle territory. You all with the pastor today? 03:27 Do you realize that when Moses got to the bottom of the Red Sea 03:31 and Pharaoh's army was behind him and walls on both sides? 03:34 God didn't say to Moses, 03:36 This is what you do if the waters don't open up. 03:40 He simply had to trust God for the waters to open up. 03:44 When they got to the Jordan River, 03:45 they didn't wait for the waters to part before they stepped in. 03:49 They had to step in the water. 03:50 Then the waters began to part. 03:53 Do you realize that when Peter walked on water, 03:56 Jesus didn't give him a flotation device. 03:59 He didn't give him an inner tube. 04:00 He had to put all of his weight on the words of Jesus Christ. 04:05 When the ten lepers went their way, 04:08 Jesus didn't give them the address to CBS. 04:10 In the event that they didn't get healed, 04:13 they had to walk all the way in obedience. 04:17 When Abraham sacrificed Isaac, his only continuance was 04:21 that God would provide or God would provide a resurrection. 04:25 If you don't believe in miracle terrain, 04:29 you got to leave your 04:30 backup plan behind. 04:35 And it's crazy because for 40 years, how long? 04:38 Church 40 years. No backup. 04:42 40 years. 04:43 No extra. 40 years. No excess. 04:47 40 years, no savings. 04:50 Watch this church every night. 04:54 They go to bed with the fridge empty. 04:58 And it's crazy 05:00 because I can see like the first day of a miracle, 05:03 like when they go to bed and they know extra. 05:04 McCarthy Joel's waking up at three in the morning 05:09 and they want to be the first ones out in the event 05:12 that God didn't put out enough to get it in front of the rest. 05:17 Who? Maybe I'm asleep. I hear what I'm saying. 05:19 So for these first couple of days, man, 05:21 every day they wake up with anxiety. 05:22 But guess what, man? 05:23 The provision is there for the first couple of months. 05:26 They wake up a little nervous, but guess what? 05:28 Every day they wake up, the provision is still there. 05:32 After a whole year, they still have a little bit of anxiety. 05:34 But every day they wake up and the provision is still there. 05:37 After two years, they wake up and it's there. 05:40 After five years, they wake up and it's there. 05:43 After ten years, they wake up and it's still there. 05:46 After 20 years, they wake up and it's still there. 05:49 After 30 days, they wake up and it's still there. 05:52 After 40 years, they wake up and the provision is still there. 05:56 And what God has done, 05:57 unbeknownst to them, is he has built a history with them 06:01 so that for 40 years God comes through 06:05 every single day of the week and they've seen God come through 06:10 with so little that they can now rest with nothing. 06:15 Oh, God. 06:17 See, some of us can only rest when we see something. 06:20 But do I have seven folk that I've just seen God work with? 06:24 So nothing. 06:27 Oh, God. 06:28 Can I just suggest that if you ain't 06:31 never been down to your last, you've been deprived. 06:36 But I need seven folk that have been down today. 06:40 A whole bunch of times to testify 06:45 that no matter how broke to bear, 06:48 no matter how desperate it got, no matter how narrow 06:53 the margins were, God still came through 06:58 100 times out of 100. 07:02 You can say I've never been forsaken. 07:05 My seed is never gone. 07:07 Millions of bread, are you hear what I'm saying? 07:12 I see. Sometimes friends. 07:14 God keeps you in that season temporarily 07:18 so that you come to know that he is your supplier. 07:26 You are here in the world today. Friends. 07:30 See, sometimes God ordains it 07:34 to teach us to stop worrying 07:37 about things that are not your responsibility. 07:42 In other words, he is your provider. 07:44 God is your father. 07:46 And sometimes God uses object lessons that make us comfortable 07:51 to teach us how to walk in faith. 07:55 It's crazy. 07:57 You know, my youngest son who's getting baptized 07:58 today is crazy whenever I've got a child. 08:00 Whenever you bring groceries into the house, 08:03 they examine everything that comes inside. 08:06 Ma'am, he be examining what's in the pantry. 08:09 He knows how many juice boxes we got, 08:10 how many snacks we got me. 08:12 I mean, he keeps inventory 08:15 on everything that's coming, 08:16 and it's crazy 08:17 because when they were a little younger 08:18 and they had to get ready to break their lunch for school, 08:20 you know, 08:21 there was some juice boxes mixing on snacks, 08:23 missing man, these guys would get all worked up, man, 08:25 because they didn't have enough snacks. 08:26 But like, one of the things I didn't realize about 08:28 my wife 08:28 is that 08:29 she was known for a late night or early morning store run. 08:34 And it's crazy because 08:35 sometimes they go to bed with the pantry entry empty, 08:39 but they would wake up because Mama already 08:42 had it on her agenda. 08:44 And by the time they woke up, the pantry would be full. 08:48 And what I'm saying is, eventually 08:50 she got on them about their worries and says, 08:52 Have you ever gone to school hungry? 08:55 Have you ever gone without a snack? 08:58 Have you ever gone without a juice box? 09:01 And what she's saying 09:02 is, I need you to look at your history 09:04 before you get concerned about your destiny. 09:07 And what I'm saying, 09:08 that somebody it doesn't matter what's there. 09:10 When you go to sleep, you serve the God that never sleeps. 09:15 He never slumbers. 09:17 And if you look back over your life, 09:20 you can testify that you've never gone without. 09:24 But God comes third, right on time. 09:27 Third thing, that's teachers, friends of mine. 09:30 Is that work or preparation is still up, 09:34 that that divine provision still requires human work. 09:39 All right. Let me say it again. 09:42 Divine provision still requires human work. 09:46 So. So, God, you also me. 09:48 Church 09:50 provided the manna. 09:53 But guess what? 09:55 They still had to go gather it. 09:59 They still got provided the quail. 10:01 And guess what? They still had to prepare it. 10:04 Oh, y'all looking at me brand new. 10:06 In other words, God provided the manna. 10:09 But he didn't send an angel with a fork 10:13 to pluck it up and spoon feed it 10:16 or hand feed it into their mouths. 10:19 Guess what? 10:20 Their faith 10:21 had to be accompanied by works or these are y'all with me 10:25 today, friends. 10:27 So that even though they gathered, I need to get 10:30 this gathering was still a component of divine provision 10:39 gathering was not separate from his provision 10:42 gathering was a component of his provision. 10:45 And there are two things I want to address because see, 10:48 there are some of us that have this mythical faith. 10:52 It is this mythical faith that is simply mental assent 10:56 to a belief in God. 10:57 But it requires me 10:58 not to sacrifice, prepare, study, work, be diligent. 11:04 I just sit and wait on the Lord. 11:09 Some of us in here praise the Lord. 11:11 You know I'm waiting on the Lord. 11:13 You know the Lord to say, 11:16 I'm sitting here in heaven, waiting on you to move in faith. 11:19 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 11:21 Because even when you look at preceding, there were a number 11:25 of institutions that God put in place, 11:27 even before seeing Sabbath was instituted, before 11:29 seeing that marriage was instituted before sin. 11:32 And guess what? Work 11:35 was instituted 11:36 before sin so that Adam couldn't just enjoy the garden. 11:41 If he wasn't willing to dress and keep the garden. 11:44 In other words, work was always a part of God's divine command, 11:48 so that no matter how much faith or trust in God you had, 11:51 guess what? There was no substitute for diligence. 11:54 So, students, you can pray until your knees 11:57 turn brown about the midterm. 12:05 But at some point you won't have 12:07 to turn off your device, your video game, 12:10 tell your boo to go home, get off the phone, 12:13 go to the library, open a book, write 12:19 all the teachers. 12:20 Can I get an amen today? 12:25 No, don't come on. 12:25 Test day with no revelation. 12:29 That's the only day you got. 12:30 Revelation? 12:32 Yeah. You want to say? 12:35 But what I'm saying is there seek. 12:37 God provides. 12:40 But you still got to gather. 12:42 There's somebody holding a lot of people to your pastor. 12:45 It's just hard to find a job. 12:46 No, it ain't. 12:50 Huntsville is one of these cities where if you want a job, 12:52 am I telling you 12:53 you can find a job in this city 12:55 if you can't find one, no one else. 12:57 I'll tell my parents the other day, man, 12:59 there is a Dollar General not far from my house. 13:03 And I walked in Dollar General one day with some slacks and 13:05 a kind of a blazer and a shirt I didn't have on a full suit. 13:08 But it's crazy because man, they were so desperate 13:09 for people to work in Dollar General. 13:10 I was just having a buggy with some drinks and some 13:14 plastic forks and spoons and right there on the spot 13:16 the lady said, Are you looking for a job? 13:25 I was kind of like. Well, how much does it pay? 13:27 I don't know. 13:29 Maybe I am. I don't. 13:32 They say the Lord works in mysterious ways. I do. 13:34 I don't know. 13:36 And it's crazy because, like, right. 13:37 That lady offers me a job on the spot 13:39 and she sees how I'm dressed 13:40 and she says, 13:41 You know what? Not only will offer a job, 13:42 you can probably start as a manager and 13:49 so if you walk in the Dollar General and see me 13:51 with little yellow shirts on, y'all know? 14:02 But what I'm saying is cap provides. 14:06 But the question is, are you gathering 14:12 for some of us? 14:13 God has provided you are pretty good husband or wife, 14:18 but the problem is you operating on autopilot. 14:21 Are you still working for the marriage? 14:24 Are you still gathering in the home? 14:27 For some of us, God has provided the opportunity for education. 14:30 But are you gathering? 14:32 For some of us, God has provided for certain illnesses. 14:37 I need you to know there are some certain 14:37 lifestyle issues 14:39 that if we just change or amend or adjust, 14:42 health will resume and healing will return on to us. 14:45 But are you willing to walk around the block, 14:47 drink a few glasses of what? Will you gather 14:50 what God has provided? 14:53 Are you hear what I'm saying? 14:55 But then we have some that have a mythical faith, 14:58 but then some of us, because we gather, 15:02 we cease giving the appropriate 15:04 amount of glory to God for what He has provided 15:09 since He's the time 15:10 when some of us is, we confuse our roles and husbands. 15:13 You hear me say this with intentional redundancy? 15:18 I need you to understand, even though, brother, 15:19 you may get up and go to work, 15:20 you may put on your armor, you may go and do it over time. 15:25 I need you to understand that you are not provider right? 15:30 Oh, you and your feelings. 15:31 Okay, I'm staying right here with the work. 15:33 I need you to know that you are not provider. 15:36 Provider is his name. 15:38 You gather 15:42 what Jehovah provides. 15:46 Are y'all hearing what I'm saying? 15:48 Do you realize it's Jehovah that provided the job? 15:52 It's Jehovah that provided the promotion. 15:57 It's Jehovah that provide y'all hearing what I'm saying. 15:59 All right, go to Act 17 and verse 28 real quick, 16:03 since some of us act in brand new Act 17 and verse 28, 16:06 because some of us men still walking around talking 16:08 about how we pulled ourselves up from our own bootstraps, 16:11 how we are, are self-made men and women. 16:16 But I need you to know the devil is a liar 16:20 and there is no truth in him at 17 and verse 16:23 28, when you get to them, you say, Man, 16:27 accept the 17 and verse 28 16:33 I'm having a hard time getting myself at 17 16:37 and verse 28, when you get there, let me say, ma'am, 16:41 at 17, this is what happens when you don't bring your glasses 16:48 because you're trying to be vain. 16:49 I mean, the earth is four in him. 16:55 We live and move 16:58 and have our what in him. 17:02 We live and move and have our being. 17:06 So stop walking around talking about how you got up 17:08 and went to work as if you did it by yourself. 17:12 Oh, how many of us are aware that it is God 17:18 that renew the lease on your breath? 17:23 That it was God that kept the synopses firing in your brain? 17:29 That it is God 17:31 that allow lambs to follow the commands of the mind. 17:36 That it is God that has the muscles still attached to bone. 17:41 So that no matter how hard you work, 17:44 no matter how creative your vision, 17:45 no matter how diligent your efforts, 17:48 I need you to realize that the ability 17:51 to put forth the effort comes from hell month. 17:55 You are here in the world today. So it's crazy. 17:59 Like you remember a while back, you know, before LeBron 18:01 broke Kareem's scoring record, they, 18:04 you know, 18:05 they interview Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 18:08 and they ask him about all the points that he scored. 18:10 And it's crazy because one of the things 18:10 that Kareem said, Louis, 18:11 is that even though he scored a bunch of points, one of 18:14 the things that he credited was he credited magic. 18:19 He gave a lot of credit to magic 18:20 because magic was the one that gave him the 18:24 assist. 18:25 Oh, you didn't catch that. 18:27 In other words, 18:28 even though I scored all the points, 18:30 he knows that 18:31 if somebody didn't give me the ball where I like it 18:35 and when I like it 18:37 or put it right at the rim for me to score it, 18:40 just what I could not have scored 18:41 all the points without somebody giving some distribution. 18:46 And what I'm saying is somebody ought 18:47 to give God and assist praise. 18:49 It doesn't matter how many points you scored, 18:53 it doesn't matter how productive you are. 18:55 Somebody had to distribute the job. 18:58 Somebody had to assist with the promotion. 19:01 Somebody had to throw the alley oop. 19:03 The hardest part is not drawing it down. 19:05 It's putting it where somebody can get it. 19:08 Are here in the word today. 19:10 The last thing this teaches us this the most time is 19:14 that you can never be fed by somebody else's portion. 19:22 So so God created this miraculous form of provision. 19:28 So God set it up in such a way 19:30 where each person 19:31 was supposed to get one omer per person 19:34 and each person would get one 19:35 for if the head of the household went out, 19:37 he would gather that person for each individual in the house. 19:41 You'll catch that. 19:44 Now, one of the things that God did was he says everybody 19:46 gets their own portion 19:56 so that when you got your plate, 19:58 there were no need of you 20:00 going and looking at everybody else's plate. 20:03 There was no need of you 20:04 trying to covet what they had on theirs. 20:07 You had to be thankful for what God had put on yours. 20:12 And that's what God got made in such a way 20:16 that if you tried to give him more access, guess what? 20:17 It was going to mold and run out. 20:20 It was going to stink because he was 20:22 not going to allow the strong 20:25 to create a manna empire, right. 20:30 Where the strong survived at the expense of the weak. 20:34 And this is how, you know, God is not Republican. 20:42 He didn't let 1% get 70% of the. 20:45 Yeah, I'm yeah. 20:49 I mean, I'm not Republican or Democrat. 20:54 I'm independent even from the best. 21:01 But nobody was fighting over their pork. 21:05 They had to get their portion and be glad with it 21:08 under God's government. Guess what? 21:10 There are no big eyes, no small use, no hierarchies. 21:14 There were no bodies, there were no haves and have nots. 21:16 God made sure 21:17 that there was enough provision so that everybody had some. 21:21 You're hearing what I'm saying. 21:24 You know, what you had to do is once you at your portion, 21:28 God set it up in such a way, man. 21:30 I don't know if you call it 21:31 the little miracle embedded in the thing where he says, 21:33 if somebody may gather too much, it would it would rot. 21:37 And if somebody gave it to little 21:39 God would make up the difference. 21:41 Oh, so literally, not only the God provided every day, 21:46 if you didn't get enough on your plate, 21:47 God literally multiplied it as you eat it 21:52 so that you would be satisfied with the portion that you had. 21:58 And simply what I want to say, beloved, 22:00 before I get ready to take my seat, 22:01 because I need to know that in this particular miracle, God 22:05 essentially models 22:06 two of the Ten Commandments, 22:07 he says, gather a double portion on the sixth day 22:10 so you can rest on the seventh day. 22:12 So God models, guess what? 22:13 The fourth commandment about Sabbath or rest trust in God. 22:17 But then in this miracle, 22:19 you know, he literally 22:20 teaches the children of Israel to do not to covet 22:24 that which belongs to your neighbor, 22:28 because he's saying if you jump and it don't matter. 22:30 And it just got so 22:31 it didn't matter if he was the first one out 22:33 or whether he was the last one there. 22:35 Guess what? 22:36 There was still going to be enough for you. 22:41 Okay. 22:45 Let me say it again. 22:46 It didn't matter if you got there first. 22:49 It didn't matter if you got there last 22:52 God was going to preserve enough of a portion for you. 22:57 Okay. 22:58 Some of y'all, Mr. 22:59 South, because some of us are so worried about where we are 23:02 in line that we will worry ourselves out of faith. 23:08 And I need some young person to know. 23:10 It doesn't matter if you the first one 23:12 of your friends to get engaged or whether you are the last one 23:16 God has somebody reserved just for you. 23:20 It doesn't matter if in your friend 23:21 so good, you're the first one to get a house 23:24 or the last one to get a house. 23:25 God has one preserve just for you. 23:29 It doesn't matter if their kids already came back to church. 23:32 God has a portion of salvation just for yours. 23:36 Stop counting your place in line 23:39 and start counting your blessings in God. 23:42 Because God is going to reserve a portion 23:46 just for you. 23:51 Are you all here in the world today, friends? 23:53 I see this is critical 23:55 because, see, some of us won't ever have joy 24:02 until you stop looking at 24:03 somebody else's portion. 24:08 You can't even see the good thing on your own plate 24:13 because you are so busy 24:16 looking at what God gave them. 24:18 Now He literally gave the same thing He's giving you. 24:21 Everybody got the same plate. 24:23 And what I'm saying to 24:24 somebody today, I want to say to some family, 24:31 some some married brother that's looking at single life, 24:35 some married sister, 24:36 they're saying, oh, single life would be better 24:39 when the grass looks greener on the other side. 24:42 Just water your own grass, you know? 24:48 Are you hear what I'm saying? 24:52 You know what I'm learning to be satisfied with my problems 24:56 right? I 25:01 see you looking at certain folk in church or in your job, 25:05 and they look so good. 25:08 But you couldn't even walk a mile in their shoes. 25:12 If you could, you would 25:13 run back to your little problem so fast 25:18 cause you can't tell what people are going through 25:20 by looking at them here in church today. 25:25 And when I'm calling somebody to do 25:28 is to take what the Scripture says 25:30 and Philippians to say, Man, you know what? 25:32 The greatest blessing in life is? 25:34 Not necessarily when I just have everything, 25:36 that thing that I want, 25:37 but when I can get to the place where I'm content 25:40 with the portion that God has given me. 25:44 So you can say, like Paul, I know how to be well-fed, 25:47 I know how hungry, 25:48 I know how to be bound, and I know how to be a base. 25:51 No matter what's the base situation or circumstance 25:52 I'm in, I have learned how to be content 25:55 and I can do all things through Christ 25:58 who gives me strength? 26:01 All right, I'm going to long. 26:04 But you know what? 26:05 The best thing God provided out as he set the 40 year 26:10 miracle in motion. 26:10 You know, the best thing he provided was 26:14 it wasn't manna, it wasn't quail. 26:21 Somebody said it, 26:24 you know, the best thing he provided was 26:27 was grace. 26:31 Somebody didn't even see it yet. 26:33 You know how that story sort of raised? 26:37 They murmured and complained 26:41 against God, Oh, you out and get it. 26:45 You know how that story should end. 26:47 It's just a martin 26:48 is sure to say mama and complained against God 26:53 and it should have read and the anger of God 26:56 broke out against them 26:58 and consumed them because of their hard 27:01 heartedness is how the story should read. 27:05 But because God is long suffering, 27:09 because he is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, 27:15 God took their complaint, sent the Holy Spirit to intercede. 27:20 And what was their complaint? 27:22 Oh God heard it like a prayer 27:25 and it supplied their knee even though they did not ask. 27:31 And so for 40 years, God didn't just send food on top of food. 27:35 He sent mercy on top of mercy and grace on top of grace 27:40 and long suffering on top of long 27:42 suffering and day after day he was patient. 27:46 And day after day he was kind. 27:49 And he did not treat them as they deserved. 27:53 But he treated them according to the multitude 27:57 of his tender mercies. 28:00 (Breath Of Life Music) |
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